empathy - is it for real?
by Dan Irwin
Hi list,
This is a bit of a rant about empathy.
This has to be the buggiest, least user friendly application on
Fedora. And we choose it as our default IM client. Why?
I did a quick scan of the list, and I don't see much traffic about
empathy. Surely It's not just me.
Over several successive versions (Since Fedora 10), empathy has never
"just worked" or "worked right" on my laptop. It will crash. Modules
will crash. People will complain that I am signed in and ignoring
them, when I don't appear to have empathy even running. While I have
persisted with it, empathy seems exceptionally bad in Fedora 16.
I have now removed all accounts from empathy, and gone back to pidgin.
Result? IM which works, behaves, and seems sane.
I think the concept of empathy/telepathy is great. The implementation
is about as far from great as one could get.
Surely I am not the only one who has these experiences and thoughts.
Thanks for reading.
Regards,
Dan
12 years, 1 month
Strangness of Firefox 10.0.1 in F16
by Aaron Konstam
This just started happening to me. When I login and open Firefox 10.0.1
it starts loading my homepage www.google.com.
Then the loading stops and I get a message:
The connection was interrupted
The connection wwto www.google/cpm was interrupted while the page was
loading.
It offers me te option to Try Again by clicking a box on screen and the
home page is loaded.
Can anyone explain what is going on and how to stop it?
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12 years, 1 month
During boot keyboard not working for passphrase
by Patrick Lists
Hi all,
On a box with F16 x86_64 I have two disks in RAID1 (Linux software raid)
and an encrypted root and swap partition. The box has a wireless
Logitech K520 USB keyboard.
In the past this worked fine: I boot the box, select a kernel if
required, the kernel boots, when asked I enter the passphrase with the
wireless USB keyboard and F16 boots fine into GNOME and I can enter my
login password fine with the wireless USB keyboard.
Now not so good: I boot the box, I can use the wireless USB keyboard to
select a kernel, the kernel boots, I get asked for the passphrase, my
wireless USB keyboard no longer works, I attach a wired USB keyboard,
enter the passphrase and then F16 boots fine. Once I get to the GNOME
login screen I can use the wireless USB keyboard fine again.
So during boot my wireless USB keyboard stops working. This happens with
all currently installed kernels: 3.2.3, 3.2.5 and 3.2.6. The wireless
USB keyboard used to work fine when asked for the passphrase.
Anyone have a suggestion how I can fix this?
Thanks!
Patrick
12 years, 1 month
Fedora 14 Gnome 2 to Fedora 16 KDE
by Phil Dobbin
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Hi, all.
I've been using Fedora 14 (i686) on an old IBM Think Pad T42 after
swapping from Debian Squeeze & am really enjoying the experience.
Fedora 14 having reached EOL, I'm looking to upgrade but at present I'm
running Gnome 2 & 16 uses Gnome 3. Not only will Gnome 3 not run on my
machine but from what I've seen of it, I don't really care to use it.
So I'm looking at using KDE. The Fedora 16 Live CD (KDE) runs fine on
the Think Pad & it seems a far better option than Gnome 3 in failback so
my question is:
1). Is there anyway I can upgrade via Yum from Gnome on 14 -> Kde on 16
without unduly breaking anything?
I've tried Googling for an answer but it's quite difficult phrasing it
correctly to get a vaild response.
I've got my /home/ folder backed up both locally & remotely so if I have
to re-install will there be any conflicts on that score if I attempt to
rsync from the back up (which I imagine there probably will)?
Thanks for any help you can give & please be patient for a response as
I'm on digest delivery.
Cheers,
Phil...
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But masters, remember that I am an ass.
Though it be not written down,
yet forget not that I am an ass.
Wm. Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
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12 years, 1 month
F16 installation problems
by n2xssvv.g02gfr12930
I have tried to do a network install of Fedora 16 multiple times, but it
has failed every time! More to the point I also discovered that the
anaconda install ignores changes I requested for the partition layout.
Excuse me for suggesting this, but Fedora 15 and 16 releases seem to be
the most troublesome releases ever, even exceeding the problems of the
transition to KDE 4. In fact I'm beginning to lose patience with Fedora
and will probably look at switching to another distro, so all
suggestions of an alternative stable KDE distribution are welcome.
cpp4ever
12 years, 1 month
Fedora 16 and Software Raid 10 on install
by Aero Maxx D
Hello Users,
Could someone help me with a Software RAID 10 setup on Fedora 16 with
disk druid, as trying to do it on a brand new install.
If I chose 1 hard drive at install I can see how this is setup, but I am
having difficulty knowing what to change to make it into a software
raid, have googled this extensively and tried to understand various
guides without any luck, dont follow what there saying as finding them a
bit vague on some details.
VolGroup 1144192
lv_root 51200 / ext4
lv_home 229472 /home ext4
lv_swap 4992 swap
sda
sda1 1 BIOS Boot
sda2 500 /boot ext4
sda3 285686 VolGroup physical volume (LVM)
Ideally I would like to be able to take a drive out should it fail and
replace it with another and for it all to be ok. I believe this would
be possible with raid 10.
Thanks in Advance.
12 years, 1 month
gphoto2 image directory -
by Bob Goodwin
Can someone tell me how/where to set where the gphoto2 image
files are stored? I don't want them dumped to /home/bobg/.
I can find all kinds of information except this most basic need.
Thanks,
Bob
12 years, 1 month
Alternative to a Pogoplug
by Robert Moskowitz
A friend has pointed me to the Pogoplug which right now can be purchased
quite cheaply:
e.g.:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/200710735289?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p39...
But you have to be careful because:
"That's what was advertised (the pro), and box (sealed) was labeled
Pogo-P21, which should have been the dual core model, but the device was
labeled Pogo-E02, which is this one:
http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv5/pogoplug-v2-pinkgray
The labeling mess seems to be as a result of them liquidating the
pre-series 4 models and stuffing them into whatever boxes they have."
There seems to be challenges with Fedora support for these devices?
Plus it is also clear that you might not get what you paid for. Sooo....
I am looking for a cheap, low power platform with ethernet and 4 USB
ports (I would even run my system drive off of USB) with 1Gb memory so I
can load a current FC on it. Duo core would be valuable. I have been
burned with this Lenovo not having duo core...
Any recommendations?
12 years, 1 month
Badblocks on the hd.
by Frank Murphy
/sbin/badblocks
has informed that there are 5 bad blocks on a hd.
Not in a position to replace at the moment,
Only dust in the wallet.
Had a look at e2fsck
man e2fsck
-l filename
-L filename
Is the "filename" automatically created.
or something I need do.
The fs is ext4.
To my mad eyes it looks like:
e2fsck -ccvp (as single user?)
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Regards,
Frank
"Jack of all, fubars"
12 years, 1 month
